General Surgery Research
Faculty in NYU Langone’s Division of General Surgery are actively involved in clinical and translational research that innovates surgical techniques and technologies and improves the quality of care we provide.
Surgical Quality Improvement Program
In 2013, NYU Langone, then NYU Langone Medical Center, joined the American College of Surgeons (ACS) National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) registry. Initially began as a quality improvement program for 133 Veterans Health Administration hospitals, NSQIP is now a national program in which more than 700 hospitals participate. Tanuja Damani, MD, vice chair of quality and innovation in surgery and chief of the Division of General Surgery, oversees NYU Langone’s participation in the program.
For each adult who undergoes a major surgical procedure at NYU Langone—with the exception of cardiac surgery, which has its own quality measurement system and patients who fall under certain other categories—staff record hundreds of variables such as preoperative risk factors, length of hospital stay, occurrence of pneumonia or sepsis, and 30-day postoperative mortality and morbidity. These data are submitted through the NSQIP Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)–compliant platform. NSQIP shares the data with all participating hospitals, allowing them to benchmark complication rates and surgical outcomes and create plans for improving quality.
